Word: crookback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RICHARD THE THIRD, by Paul Murray Kendall. A U.S. historian's big, balanced biography of "Richard Crookback" that pleased even Britain's reviewers. Richard may or may not have murdered the princes in the tower, but this book accords him kingly virtues which readers of history have seldom suspected...
Shakespeare is throwing this mud at Britain's Richard of Gloucester, alias "Richard Crookback," better known as Richard III. Generations of students have gasped with horror at the monstrous doings of Britain's basest king, notorious for the murder of his young nephews ("The Little Princes in the Tower''). Not for three centuries did historians begin to wonder whether Crookback could possibly have been quite so crooked. Now. Ohio University Historian Paul Kendall has tried once more to get at the truth...
Author Kendall tries to fill in the vacuum by suggesting that puny Richard practiced swordsmanship so vigorously that his right arm and shoulder developed at the expense of his left, making him seem "crookback'd." What is certain is that at the age of 18 he was a trusted general and led a flank of his brother's army against the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet. (Author Kendall's maps show modern landmarks so the reader can picture Warwick driving south across the "Golf Links.") But only with the sudden death of Edward...
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